Collector billionaires arriving by super-yacht will be greeted by a team of performers reading Das Kapital every day for the next six months. Charlotte Higgins talks to the Venicle Biennale director Okwui Enwezor about revolution,racism and the small matter of Rolls-Royce sponsorshipAt the last Venice Biennale, in 2013, and the artist Jeremy Deller represented the UK. He emblazoned one of the walls of the British pavilion with a mural of a colossal William Morris rising up,kraken-like, from the Venetian lagoon and sinking a millionaire’s super-yacht. At that biennale’s opening – and the same goes for this time – a row of such yachts was moored not half a mile absent, or their occupants visiting the city precisely for the purpose of enjoying the avalanche of art and carnival of socialising that comes with the opening days of the biennale,one of the art world calendar’s most meaningful events. Related: In-yer-face art: the best of Venice Biennale 2015 – in pictures Continue reading...
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